Feb 27, 2021
Beauty is the ‘sweet spot between suchness and moreness’. Suchness is immanence and intimacy; moreness is transcendence and expansion. Beauty emerges in that sweet spot where immanence and transcendence meet—the transjective in Vervaeke’s language. This is what Martin Buber called ‘thou’ and what John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro call The 3rd principle—the creative and dynamic spirit—the serious play—between two beings. Beauty is always dialogical—a dialogue with the other and with the world.
Andrew Sweeney, Reinventing Beauty
Beauty is always dialogical.